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Counterproductive Thinking
Scott McLemee reviews Melissa Gregg's Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy.
Rival Publishers Join Forces
Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education will combine to create one giant education publisher focused on digital content. Observers aren’t convinced that’s a good thing for students.
Reprieve at Stanford
Provost, who had said university was ending its support for university press this year, extends it for another year and suggests more support could be coming in the future. New approach comes amid widespread criticism.
‘Intersectionality and Higher Education’
Editors discuss new volume of essays on the ways higher education is changing because of issues of race, gender and sexuality -- and how they think higher ed needs to change even more.
The Publishers' Move to Capture Campus Data
Analysis commissioned by advocacy group documents how major companies' business strategies could help them lock up research and learning data that colleges and scholars need.
Stanford Moves to Stop Supporting Its University Press
Scholars question decision -- particularly as it comes from one of the world's wealthiest universities and will limit publishing by a highly respected press.
White Nationalists Disrupt Professor's Talk
Vanderbilt scholar was talking about his new book, Dying of Whiteness.
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Notes from the Underground
Scott McLemee reviews Vice, Crime and Poverty by Dominique Kalifa.